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By Saul Landau The Tucson massacre yielded the media and politicians weeks of fodder for their nattering mills. Yes, Americans hate violence and love guns, just as we stand for peace…
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By Bill Press A funny thing happened on the way to repeal of President Obama's health care reform plan in the House: the vast majority of Americans decided they liked the new plan…
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By John Tierney From The Atlantic In yesterday's Boston Sunday Globe, Bryan Bender reported on the Kennedy family's tight-fisted and iron-willed efforts to keep the official papers of…
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By Warren Richey From The Christian Science Monitor Washington —The liberal advocacy group Common Cause announced on Thursday that it has asked the Justice Department to investigate…
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By Max J. Castro Once again we are at that time of the year when the United States officially celebrates the life and legacy of the supreme hero and martyr of the civil rights movement,…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times On Wednesday, President Obama called on Americans to “expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our…
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By Bill Press John F. Kennedy. Martin Luther King Jr. Bobby Kennedy. John Lennon. George Moscone. Harvey Milk. We've been there so often, we should be used to it by now. But it still…
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By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés On December 18, 2010, Cuban President Raúl Castro warned Cubans: the nation faced a crisis. The disastrous condition of Cuba's economy no longer…
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Press Release – The White House Today, President Obama has directed the Secretaries of State, Treasury, and Homeland Security to take a series of steps to continue efforts to reach out…
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Washington (CNN) -- The federal government will loosen restrictions on U.S. relations with Cuba beginning in about weeks, a top White House official said Friday. Dan Restrepo, a special…
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